Quotes by Italian/Italy authors (page 2)

"We need to redefine the role of the teacher from that of the transmitter of knowledge to that of a researcher, co-learner, and partner in the process of constructing knowledge"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"Art is never finished, only abandoned"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"He listens well who takes notes"

Dante Alighieri, Poet

"Each work has its own space, which should neither be conceived as a sort of cage nor regarded as extending to infinity"

Marino Marini, Sculptor

"Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven"

Aulus Persius Flaccus, Poet

"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"

Michelangelo, Artist

"From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born"

Michelangelo, Artist

"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master"

Michelangelo, Artist

"What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame"

Donatella Versace, Designer

"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do"

Gian Carlo Menotti, Composer

"The media can be a really strong vehicle"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts"

Italo Calvino, Journalist

"The spread of heresy is a plague that must be stopped at all costs. No effort must be spared in the pursuit of this goal"

Pope Gregory IX, Pope

"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale"

Elsa Schiaparelli, Designer

"I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since"

Arturo Toscanini, Musician

"I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses"

Christopher Columbus, Adventurer

"Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Page 2 of 38

Quotes by Italian authors